We Are Extremely Proud Of Governor Seyi Makinde – PDP

The Secretary, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South-West, Rahman Owokoniran has come out to hail Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on his second year in office.

He recently revealed this via a statement, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, PDP is very proud of Governor Makinde’s integrated system of governance as it serves as rekindles hope in Nigerian youths as visionary leaders.

He added that the governor has proved that youths are not leaders of tomorrow, but of today for a better tomorrow.

His words, “Makinde’s second year in office has given what a typical All Progressives Congress, APC, government starts planning for in its second term.”

“His integrated approach to governance is practical and has ensured inclusiveness across party, ethnic and religious lines.”

“This administrative style has also ensured all government agencies do no work in isolation.”

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The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is a major contemporary political party in Nigeria. Its policies generally lie towards the centre-right of the political spectrum. It won every Presidential election between 1999 and 2011, and was until the 2015 elections, the governing party in the Fourth Republic although in some cases, amid a few controversial electoral circumstances. Currently, PDP controls 14 states out of 36 states in Nigeria.

In 1998 the PDP in its first presidential primary election held in Jos, Plateau State, North Central Nigeria norminated former military leader Olusegun Obasanjo who had just been released from detention as political prisoner as the presidential candidate in the elections of February 1999, with Atiku Abubakar (Governor-Elect of Adamawa State and a former leading member of the Social Democratic Party) as his running mate. They won the presidential election and were inaugurated 29 May, 1999.

The longtime slogan of the People’s Democratic Party has been “Power to the people”. During the party’s National Convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on 21 May 2016, David Mark, a former President of the Senate of Nigeria, introduced “Change the change” as the party’s campaign slogan for the 2019 general elections.

In the 2019 elections, former vice president Atiku Abubakar and PDP presidential candidadate and his party rejected the outcome of the elections as INEC was yet to conclude the process and make an official pronouncement. On the 25th of February, PDP National Party Chair, Prince Uche Secondus alleged that the result as announced by INEC were incorrect.